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Diagrams are widely used in our day to day communication. A knowledge of the spatial patterns used in diagrams is essential to read and understand them. In the context of diagrams, spatial patterns mean accepted spatial ...

Children should be included in the design process when developing new technology solutions for child users. Involving children from different age groups as well as diverse socio-economic circumstances in participatory ...

We live in a world that has seen a multitude of scientific and technological innovations and advances.
One arguably revolutionary innovation has been the advent of the Internet. The Internet along
with various other ...

The advent of digitalization exposes enterprises to an ongoing transformation with the challenge to quickly capture relevant aspects of changes. This brings the demand to create or adapt domain-specific modeling languages ...

BACKGROUND : Marketers are interested in taking advantage of the capabilities of social mediabased
brand communities to develop long-term relationships with their customers. This
research investigated the usage of a South ...

The accessibility to handwritten historical documents is often constrained by the limited feasibility of automatic full transcriptions. Keyword Spotting (KWS), that allows to retrieve arbitrary query words from documents, ...

In the last decades historical handwritten documents have become increasingly available in digital form. Yet, the accessibility to these documents with respect to browsing and searching remained limited as full automatic ...

The use of design science research (DSR) as a paradigm of choice among information systems (IS) researchers is growing. While there is an apparent increase in the number of DSR artefacts of the method form, very few research ...

This paper presents the first step in exploring the match between IT managers’ expectations of functional creativity within an information system (IS), and the functional creativity of the information systems developed by ...

Design science research (DSR) is well-known in different domains, including information systems (IS), for the construction of artefacts. One of the most challenging aspects of IS postgraduate studies (with DSR) is determining ...

This research reflects on the outcomes of a design thinking assignment given to first year Information Systems students. The assignment entailed the design and making of a corporate gift (or prototype thereof) by making ...

Technology is everywhere, we only need to look around and observe the world around us. Teaching any course today cannot be done without some form of technology incorporated, if not the central point of delivering material ...

The landscape of higher education is changing, with more techno-savvy students entering these institutions. The aim of this paper is to identify the trends of the Gartner Hype Cycles for Emerging Technologies for 2013 and ...

This paper reports on an investigation into the use of ontology technologies to support taxonomic functions. Support for taxonomy is imperative given several recent discussions and publications that voiced concern over the ...

In this article the authors describe how they incorporate eye tracking in a human-computer interaction
(HCI) course that forms part of a postgraduate Informatics degree. The focus is on an eye tracking
assignment that ...

Semantic heterogeneity hampers efforts to find, integrate, analyse and interpret ecological data. An application case-study is described, in which the objective was to automate the integration and interpretation of ...

The support of workplace learning is increasingly relevant as the change in every form determines today’s working world in the industry and public administrations alike. Adapting quickly to a new job, a new task or a new ...

Parents are recognized as an important group of stakeholders to take into account when implementing technology in schools. However, very little research has considered the parent’s view in the learning development of his/her ...

Despite its universal appeal, little has been done in the way of empirical research to probe into the role
of formal information technology (IT) investment evaluation practices and its influence on IT
governance and ...

About ten years ago, a novel graph edit distance framework based on bipartite graph matching has been introduced. This particular framework allows the approximation of graph edit distance in cubic time. This, in turn, makes ...